"When I found I had given birth to……" — Victoria Woodhull
"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."
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Victoria Woodhull
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50 Quotes by Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull has 50 quotes on this site.
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one…
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold…
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue.…
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as…
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral…
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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways…
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . .…
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may…
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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